For some reason I am off for my fourth echocardiogram today. Swoosh, Swoosh. No waiting.
If you have to go to the Royal Berks take advantage of MERL, The Museum of English Rural Life, which
is owned and managed by the University. It was established by
academics in the Department of Agriculture in 1951 to capture and
record the rapidly changing countryside following World War II. In
2005, the Museum moved to its current premises in St Andrew’s Hall,
next to the RBH, a building designed by Sir Alfred Waterhouse in 1880
for local businessman Alfred Palmer of the Huntley & Palmer
biscuit company.
The
Museum was awarded £1.8million from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF)
in 2014 for the redevelopment of the galleries, reopening in October
2016.
Quoting
from their web site
‘It
uses its diverse and surprising collection to explore how the skills
and experiences of farmers and craftspeople, past and present, can
help shape our lives now and into the future. The Museum has worked
alongside rural people, local communities and specialist researchers
to create displays and activities that engage with important debates
about the future of food and the ongoing relevance of the countryside
to all our lives.’
It has the following great features
- Free entrance
- Free lockers
- Free wifi
- A great simple high level time line
- Shop with high quality products, cards mugs scarves bags
- All walls covered
- Projected animated photos
- Simple messages which engage and also highly interactive ipads
- A friendly curator wandering about.For more info click hereBack at the station it's well worth heading up Thames Tower to view the small exhibition Crash, A better Britian
I
Britlins is the vision of The Conglomerate, a select group of maverick
MPs, self-made businessmen, and ageing celebrities, who want to turn
back the clock on Broken Britain and restore it to the magical days of
their youth. It's a light hearted take on how Britian is NOW and makes you think. The views are good too.
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